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GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism. Other names for the process include Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM), which are one and the same.
How is a GMO Different from Hybridization / Cross-Breeding?
Genetic modification is the process of forcing genes from one species into another entirely unrelated species. Unlike cross breeding or hybridization—both of which involve two related species and have been done without ill effects for centuries—genetic engineering forcefully breaches the naturally-occuring barriers between species.
Example: Corn + DNA from soil bacteria that is naturally immune to RoundUp herbicide + e.coli bacteria + soil bacteria that causes tumors in plants (which enables the plant's cell wall to be breached) = RoundUp Ready Corn (one of several RoundUp Ready crops engineered by Monsanto).
Other examples of GMOs include strawberries and tomatoes injected with fish genes to protect the fruit from freezing, goats injected with spider genes to produce milk with proteins stronger than kevlar for use in industrial products, salmon that are genetically engineered with a growth hormone that allow them to keep growing larger, dairy cows injected with the genetically engineered hormone rBGH (also known as rBST) to increase milk production, and rice injected with human genes to produce pharmaceuticals.
How are Crops Genetically Modified?
Foreign DNA is inserted into the primary plant species using one of three methods:
- E.coli bacteria is combined with a soil bacteria that causes tumors that allows the foreign bacteria to breach the host plant's cells.
- Electricity is applied to the host plant to rupture its cell walls, thus allowing the foreign DNA to invade; or
- A "gene gun" blasts the engineered DNA directly into the plant's cells.
For a more visual explanation, watch this video (the process graphics begin at the 2.20 minute mark).
Because the injected genes can come from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or even humans, GMOs are also known as "transgenic" organisms. Because genes operate in a complex network in ways that are still not fully understood (as discovered during the Human Genome Research Project), genetic engineering can result in both known and unknown / unintended consequences.
What is the Intended Outcome of Genetic Modification?
The websites and marketing materials of the companies that are conducting genetic modification would have you believe that GMOs will feed the world's ever growing, hungry population—with greater crop yields, more drought resistance, increased nutrition, and other worthy-sounding benefits.
However after nearly two decades of development, none of these traits have come to market. View a list of the top ten genetically modified crops and see which genetically engineered traits are most predominant.
Instead, nearly 100% of genetic modification is devoted to the increased use of herbicides and pesticides, which these "ag-bio" corporations also develop and sell. The majority of their research and development has been focused on genetically altering plants to do one of two things:
- To produce their own internal pesticide to kill or deter insects; and
- To remain alive when repeatedly sprayed with weedkillers that are manufactured by these same corporations, including glyphosate (aka RoundUp), glufosinate, and 2-4,D (one of the primary ingredients of Agent Orange).
Some crops are genetically engineered with both herbicide-resistant traits; soy was recently genetically engineered to withstand all three.
So what's the real motive? Profit.
Genetically modified seeds can be patented as intellectual property, which enables GMOs to be owned, sold, controlled, and legally protected by a corporation, giving these corporations ultimate power over food. No surprise these corporations have focused on genetically modifying corn and soy, since these two products are used in almost 90% of processed food for humans, and in 100% of the grain fed to (non-organic) animals raised for meat.
Why is our food being made and modified
by the world's largest pesticide manufacturer?
What Corporations Manufacture GMOs?
The #1 company developing GMO plants and controlling the largest market share of GMO crops in the world is the same company selling the weedkiller called RoundUp: Monsanto.
GMOs are the latest innovation in Monsanto's long line-up of questionable products, including Agent Orange, PCBs, DDT, Dioxin, Aspartame, Saccharain, rBGH / rBST, and Terminator Seeds that grow for only one season, forcing farmers to buy their genetically modified seeds each year instead of saving seeds from the prior harvest as they have done for centuries.
No wonder Monsanto re-branded themselves from a "chemical" company to a "bio-agricultural" company back in 1997 (with the new tag line "imagine")– GMOs, and the weedkillers they are engineered to withstand, are an extraordinarily profitable loop!
Other companies in the "Big Six" include Pioneer Hi-Bred International (a subsidiary of DuPont), Syngenta AG, Dow Agrosciences (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, BASF (which is primarily a chemical company that is rapidly expanding their biotechnology division, and Bayer Cropscience (a subsidiary of Bayer).
Read a report about the 'Big Six' here >
View a complete list of companies doing genetic engineering on this website >
Where are GMOs found?
Although the list is changing all the time, GMOs are currently labeled, extremely restricted, or banned in 64 countries, including the entire European Union (United Kingdom, Norway, Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland).
They are also banned in Australia (but that's shifting now due to pressure from NuFarm/Monsanto, and the Aussies are not happy) and New Zealand.
Elsewhere in the world, GMOs are similarly restricted or banned in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Algeria, Poland, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, China, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Fiji, Sri Lanka, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
In Canada the debate is still underway: as far back as 1998, scientists employed by Health Canada who were concerned about human health impacts complained that they were being pressured to approve the GMO milk hormone, which is injected into cows to increase milk supply. They testified that the drug maker, Monsanto, offered them a bribe of over $1 million to approve it. They also reported that their research study documents were stolen from a locked file cabinet in a government office.
In response, a Monsanto official went on Canadian national television saying that the scientists had "misunderstood an offer for research money."
March Against Monsanto in San Diego, California, May 2013
Here in the United States (where several of our largest corporations have a vested financial interest in GMOs), the proliferation of misinformation has resulted in very little progress: Maryland has banned genetically engineered fish; North Dakota and Montana filed bans on genetically engineered wheat; Burlington, Vermont declared a moratorium on genetically engineered food; Boulder, Colorado banned genetically engineered crops; and GM crops have been banned in the California counties of Mendocino, Trinity and Marin, the big island of Hawaii, and the San Juan county of Washington state.
As of 2013, after the FDA denied more than 1 million signatures in a national petition to label GMOs, more than two dozen states began working on state-wide labeling measures, including Maine, Connecticut and Vermont.
But state efforts have not come without a price: Monsanto sued Vermont and Connecticut's GMO labeling measures into silence for over a year, and with donations from multiple large U.S. food manufacturers who rely on genetically engineered corn and soy, nearly $70 million was spent to confuse voters in California and Washington state into (narrowly) defeating GMO labeling propositions.
Even if some states are successful down the road, there's no guarantee that their efforts will be upheld: the U.S. Senate recently decided that it does not want to give states the authority to tell people if they are eating genetically modified food—with a vote of 71 against 27.
What Foods Contain GMOs?
As of 2014, the USDA reports the following percent of all crops grown in the U.S. are genetically modified:
• Soybeans – 94% (up from 93% in 2013)
• Corn – 93% (up from 90% in 2013) *see note
• Cotton – 96% (up from 90% in 2013)
• Sugar Beets – 90% as of 2013 (2014 data not yet reported)
The following represent percentages from 2012, as no current data can be found on the USDA site:
• Canola – 88%
• Hawaiian papaya – more than 50%
• Zucchini and Yellow Squash – small %
• Quest brand tobacco – 100%
• Alfalfa (recently approved by the FDA; widely fed to animals to produce meat and milk)
• Kentucky Bluegrass (recently approved by the FDA; even more widely fed to animals to produce meat and milk; already an invasive grass in its natural state, it will spread even more uncontrollably with genetically engineered resistance to RoundUp)
• Farmed salmon (as of 2014, the FDA is still considering comments about their conditional approval of salmon containing a growth hormone)
*Because corn has been engineered to produce its own insecticide as it grows, the Environmental Protection Agency now regulates corn as an insecticide.
While this list may look short, the byproducts of these crops result in a far longer shopping list. GMOs are used in thousands of processed foods, ranging from infant formula to bread, tofu, and tomato sauce. Meanwhile GM feed is widely fed to animals that produce milk, eggs and meat, which means GMOs are also getting into products like ice cream, mayonnaise, cheese, and veggie burgers (whey protein!). Even non-food items such as cosmetics, soaps, detergents, shampoo and bubble bath often contain GMO ingredients.
According to a 2005 estimate by the Grocery Manufacturers of America, 75% of all processed foods in the U.S. contain at least one genetically modified ingredient.
Why Worry About GMOs?
The most common argument in favor of GMOs is that "humans have been genetically engineering species for hundreds of years," resulting in larger corn plants, dog breeds that serve unique purposes, seedless grapes, and the like. But this too is another misleading statement. What humans have been "doing for centuries" is called hybridization. Hybridization is NOT genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering involves the combination of two entirely unrelated species in a lab—species that could never cross or coexist in nature and thus require complex techniques to forcefully combine the genes.
The second most common argument in favor of GMOs is the biotech industry's claims that the FDA has "thoroughly evaluated" GM foods and found them safe. This too is untrue.
For nearly two decades, NO studies have been performed on the human safety of GMO products — in fact the first research is only now emerging, and almost all of it is appearing only in countries outside of the U.S.
To date, no American scientist has investigated the levels of toxic residues in GMO foods.
There have been no studies to determine how much of the herbicides and pesticides that are genetically engineered into the crops remain inside the plant, once it reaches our dinner plate.
There have likewise been no studies to determine how much toxic residue is left over on crops which are heavily saturated with additional pesticides and herbicides during their growth, because they were genetically engineered to withstand it (kills all the weeds around them, while they remain alive).
No long-term testing has been performed to assess the impacts of any of these toxic substances — neither on human health nor on the environment.
What then, has been studied?
To date, any studies done that relate to GMOs have been performed on animals, with consistent, documented effects of GMO toxicity, including immune dysregulation (asthma, allergy, and inflammation); accelerated aging; infertility; dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis, insulin regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation; as well as altered structure and function in the liver, kidney, pancreas, spleen and gastrointestinal system, still birth, birth defects, and early death. Details on a few of these animal studies can be found here.
Meanwhile, related studies on Glyphosate (the key ingredient in Monsanto's RoundUp; for which the majority of GMO crops have been engineered to withstand) have uncovered a whole host of toxic effects in humans, plants and soil. View one of the man study reports here; watch an easy-to-understand (and very informative) interview video with the scientist by clicking here.
Why is there a lack of thorough evaluation?
Scientists who study genetically engineered crops are scorned if their research doesn't promote GMOs in a positive light.
The leading scientific journal Science Direct published a study in 2011 showing significant conflict of interest in so-called "research" done on the health risks and nutritional assessment of genetically modified products.
In 2014, a comprehensive peer review of the Ag-Biotech industry's so called 'long term safety studies' found them to be significantly inaccurate or flawed and no proof of safety.
Says Scientific American Magazine, "Agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers."
Key corporations responsible for genetic engineering are doing everything in their power to prevent unbiased research, while distributing mass media "greenwashing" (or providing donor support to public media sources such as NPR) to confuse Americans until they're too frustrated to care what's really going on.
Yet despite the lack of human studies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have all determined that genetically modified food is "the same as, or substantially equivalent to, substances commonly found in food."
Which means GMO foods are not required to undergo specific safety tests prior to entering the market. If the makers of the GM foods claim that they are safe, the FDA has no further questions.
(If they truly are "substantially the same," why are these corporations able to have them protected by intellectual property patents?)
In fact the FDA recently granted Monsanto the ability to conduct their own environmental impact studies. The 2012/2013 Farm Bill currently contains a rider that if passed as is, grants Monsanto complete immunity from FDA control over where and how they plant future GMO test crops.
If no less than 64 other countries in the world have laws in place to label, restrict, or outright ban GMO food and/or grains, why not the U.S.? Norman Braksick, President of Monsanto subsidiary Asgrow Seed, explained it way back in 1994: "If you put a label on genetically engineered food, you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." (Source: Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994.)
What is the Current Status of GMOs?
• GMOs are now present in the majority of processed foods consumed in the U.S. (unless they're organic).
• US cancer rates are the 7th highest in the world, having skyrocketed during the same timeframe GMOs were introduced into our food.
• "Superweeds" and pesticide-resistant insects are evolving out of control.
• 2-4,D (one of the two primary ingredients in Agent Orange) has been approved to kill superweeds, and soy has been genetically engineered to withstand it.
• Natural crops are being infected through cross-pollination; some are developing a form of auto-immune dysfunction that causes plants to die before harvest.
• Fish, wildlife and insects are being born with defects, infertility, or dying prematurely, either from direct exposure or consuming exposed prey.
• Bees, which we rely upon to pollinate our crops, are dying at unprecedented rates… whether due to the increase in herbicides that came about during the rapid adoption of herbicide-resistant GMO crops, or colony collapse disorder, or a relationship between the two… no definitive cause has been determined.
• Monarch butterflies are likewise dying at unprecedented rates as a direct result of the herbicides used in conjunction with GMO crops.
• There's been a massive increase in pesticide use from the time genetically engineered crops were introduced in 1996 through 2011. Click here to read the original study.
• As pesticides gradually kill soil microorganisms, crops become reliant on fossil fuel fertilizers.
• Millions of acres of soil and the natural aquifers underneath the soil are being saturated with toxins, due to the ever-increasing use of herbicides and pesticides to counteract resistant weeds and insects.
• Coincidentally during the same two decades, our national health costs have tripled, while our overall national health has sunk lower than almost all the civilized countries in the world.
How do the Ag-Bio Corporations Respond to These Problems?
• By creating "self-terminating" seeds, stronger herbicides, and deadlier pesticides.
• By continuing to tell the world they are improving crop yield and nutrition to "Feed the World," even though they continue to focus more than 90% of their efforts on herbicide and pesticide resistance.
• By forcing organic companies to create 100 foot "no-farming" buffer zones around their fields, to prevent the GMO plants, seeds and pollens from invading.
• By suing the farmers when cross-pollination does occur, accusing them of patent infringement and non-payment of licensing, royalty, and seed fees.
• By suing any state that tries to pass GMO labeling requirements.
• By blocking attempts at scientific research when it doesn't present GMOs favorably.
• By creating organizations to mislead farmers and consumers.
• By lobbying the federal government to protect GM crops and prevent GM product labeling… to the tune of $1.4 million in just the first 3 months of 2011.
• By focusing their current marketing efforts on third world countries with the promise of feeding their hungry.
• By labeling any public outcry — whether scientist or consumer — as misinformed, progress-phobic, anti-science propaganda.
How Do You Know Who to Believe?
If you're like us, you're feeling pretty overwhelmed at this point. The more you read, the more you're wondering how something like this could have gotten so far without your knowledge.
Please don't take our word for it. Do your own research. Yes, you'll find some muddy waters when you do. Wherever possible, we encourage you to do what we did: ask these three key questions (courtesy of the Label GMOs website):
- Who is conducting the research and what is their relationship with the biotech industry?
- Who is funding the research? Who is their parent funder? And theirs? And theirs?
- Who monetarily benefits from the results of the research?
Last but not least, when you read information from the FDA and USDA, take the time to investigate the names behind the statements, and do a quick Wikipedia search on those individuals. You may (or may not) be surprised to learn how many of the people currently employed by the FDA were formerly employed by key corporations responsible for genetic engineering before they were "assigned" to work for the FDA.
Since this technology is comparatively new, and there is still no data on the long term effects of human consumption of GMOs, are you comfortable being part of an experiment?
Sadly, most US consumers have no idea about any of this.
It's time to wake up and decide if the impact of GMO foods — on you, your family, and the environment — is a risk you're willing to take.
Where Can You Learn More?
To view (or download if you wish) a PDF document containing an in-depth, evidence-based examination of the "Myths and Truths" about GMOs written by a noted geneticist, click here.
To keep abreast of breaking news, information and helpful recommendations about avoiding GMOs, consider "liking" our GMO Awareness Facebook page.
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History of Stroke
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, first recognized stroke over 2,400 years ago. At this time stroke was called apoplexy, which means "struck down by violence" in Greek. This was due to the fact that a person developed sudden paralysis and change in well-being. Doctors had little knowledge of the anatomy and function of the brain, the cause of stroke, or how to treat it.
It was not until the mid-1600s that Jacob Wepfer found that patients who died with apoplexy had bleeding in the brain. He also discovered that a blockage in one of the brain's blood vessels could cause apoplexy.
Medical science continued to study the cause, symptoms, and treatment of apoplexy and, finally, in 1928, apoplexy was divided into categories based on the cause of the blood vessel problem. This led to the terms stroke or "cerebral vascular accident (CVA)." Stroke is now often referred to as a "brain attack" to denote the fact that it is caused by a lack of blood supply to the brain, very much like a heart attack is caused by a lack of blood supply to the heart. The term brain attack also conveys a more urgent call for immediate action and emergency treatment by the general public.
Today, there is a wealth of information available on the cause, prevention, risk, and treatment of stroke. Most stroke victims now have a good chance for survival and recovery. Immediate treatment, supportive care, and rehabilitation can all improve the quality of life for stroke victims.


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Today the Nationals made official many changes to the Nationals Park fan experience, including new food options, a major renovation of the Red Porch, and the unveiling of seven-foot stationary bobbleheads at the "Nats Family Fun Area" in the likeness of George, Tom, Abe, Teddy, and the GEICO Gecko. Other changes include new value meals, picnic tables, live post-game shows in the centerfield plaza, and some additional food options coming for mid-season.
I have been out of the country for most of the past two weeks and have missed a lot, including today's media tour, where the announcements are being made. While I've been out, the Washingtonian Magazine wrote up this blog as one of DC's "Can't Miss Clicks," and season tickets were delivered including — surprise of surprises — a photo of me holding a Teddy Rally Sign on the September 10th ticket. Photo to follow.
Most of the changes will be on display tomorrow evening for the exhibition game between your Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles. The full announcement from the Nationals:
Team Upgrades Red Porch Restaurant and Nats Family Fun Area to Improve Fan Experience
The Washington Nationals today unveiled a variety of improvements to Nationals Park. To enhance the fan experience at the ballpark, new concessionaire Levy Restaurants was introduced in February; major renovations were completed on the Red Porch Restaurant; significant changes were made to the Nats Family Fun Area in the Center Field Plaza, including the GEICO Racing Presidents Photo Station and the Exxon Strike Zone; and additional directional signage has been installed. New statues and artwork will be displayed in the Center Field Plaza and at the Home Plate Gate. The statues and artwork will be unveiled during a ceremony on Wednesday, April 8 at 11:00am.
The Red Porch Restaurant in the Center Field Plaza, open to all fans two-and-a-half hours before game time, has undergone a complete remodeling and will open on April 4 for the Nationals exhibition game vs. the Baltimore Orioles at 6:05pm. Outdoor dining patios have been created on both sides of the restaurant with an awning covering the Center Field Plaza tables. Sliding glass panels and rollup glass doors will open to expose both the Center Field Plaza and the playing field so that fans may experience the sights and sounds of the ballpark while enjoying their meal indoors. Decorative fans and lighting adorn the open ceiling and all furniture is being replaced. The new menu will feature three styles of wings, including Thai-style chili wings, an Italian chopped salad pizzan, and a selection of Minor League Kids Meals for $6. The Red Porch will also feature a variety of draft beers and a selection of American micro-brew craft beers.
The Nationals have partnered with Levy Restaurants for food and beverage operations, the leader in premium sports and entertainment dining. New menus will be launched on Saturday, serving both traditional fare and upscale items, including regional dishes and innovative versions of D.C.'s favorites. Four new concessions concepts will be introduced at the park including a Healthy Plate cart, featuring healthy wraps, fresh salads, vegetables and hummus and fresh fruit; The Pit at the Red Loft, opening mid-season and serving traditional pit barbeque prepared on a charcoal grill; a barbeque concession stand, also opening mid-season on the main concourse, serving ribs, pulled pork and brisket; and the Triple Play Grill, located in the Left Field V and offering a pulled pork sandwich and foot-long Crab Louie sandwich. Additional menu boards have been added to 40 concession stands increasing visibility throughout the park. The team will offer three value meals at various stands, all at a cost of $7, the Nats Dog Meal, Nats Dog, 16-oz. soda and chips; Nacho Value Pack, small nachos and two 16-oz sodas; and the Popcorn Value Pack, 12-oz popcorn tub and two 16-oz sodas.
"The Nationals are committed to providing a first-class fan experience at Nationals Park," said Nationals President Stan Kasten. "Nationals Park remains one of the most affordable entertainment options in Washington, DC with a large variety of ticket deals and value menus offered. We feel that enhancements to the Red Porch, the partnership with Levy Restaurants, the new entertainment options in Center Field Plaza and the improved product on the field will combine to create a memorable day at the ballpark in 2009."
The Nats Family Fun Area which includes the GEICO Racing Presidents Photo Station, Sony Playstation Pavilion, Exxon Strike Zone and Build-A-Bear workshop has also undergone renovations. GEICO continues its sponsorship of the most popular in-game feature at Nationals Park with the creation of Racing President Bobbleheads, seven-foot stationary bobbleheads in the likeness of George, Tom, Abe, Teddy and the GEICO Gecko. Fans may take photos with the bobbleheads from gates open to final out. The Exxon Strike Zone has been completely revamped, providing fans with the opportunity to practice their pitching and hitting skills on the latest in simulated equipment while learning that baseball fundamentals are rooted in physics. The walls of the Strike Zone are covered in math and science facts that illustrate their relationship to the game. One wall of the new Exxon Strike Zone is devoted to the energy efficiency considerations that went into creating Nationals Park, the first LEED-Silver certified ballpark in the country. Through a partnership with ExxonMobil, fans can view tips on how to become more energy efficient in their daily lives.
The ballclub has added a variety of amenities designed to make the Nationals Park experience more enjoyable. Guests arriving at the ballpark will receive ticket information from new LED boards installed above the ticket windows at First and N Street, SE, the Main Box Office, the ticket windows adjacent to the team store and above the Center Field Gates. Fans that enter the ballpark through the Center Field Gates will get a glimpse of the games starting line-up as displayed on the façade of Parking Garage B, listed by position on large Topps Starting Line-up Cards. Johnny Holliday and Ray Knight will host MASN's pre- and post-game show live from Nationals Park on a stage located in the Center Field Plaza. Picnic tables have been added on every level of the park throughout the concourses and 75 Nationals baseball cap-topped recycling bins have been provided by Coca-Cola to make it easier for fans to recycle. Additional directional signage has also been installed throughout the ballpark.
The Nationals will unveil the ballpark's new statues and artwork on Wednesday, April 8 at 11:00am. Through a partnership with the Commission on the DC Arts & Humanities, Omny Amri of Timeless Creations, Inc. has created three white bronze statutes to honor the legends of Washington, DC baseball history – Josh Gibson, Frank Howard and Walter Johnson. These statues, along with The Ball Game – a mobile designed by Walter Kravitz and located at the First Base Gate, will debut at a public ceremony next week. A media advisory with information on this event will be distributed shortly.
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In 1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the bathroom of a fast-food restaurant. Nearly three decades later, the baby is all grown up and looking for her biological mother, and tens of thousands of people are trying to help.
Katheryn Deprill began her quest on March 2 by posting a photo on her Facebook page in which she held up a sign that said, "Looking for my birth mother. … She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me find her by sharing my post."
Deprill, a 27-year-old married mother of three, figured the photo would be reposted by friends, maybe friends of friends. A week later, it's been shared nearly 27,000 times by Facebook users around the world. Deprill's story is rocketing around the media world, too.
But there's still no sign of the mystery woman who left her in a restaurant bathroom.
Deprill, an EMT who lives outside Allentown in South Whitehall Township, said there's so much she wants to tell her birth mom.
"Number one is, I would really like to say, âThank you for not throwing me away, thank you for giving me the gift of life, and look what I've become,' " Deprill said Monday.
She'd like to know her family medical history, as well. And she has so many questions about the circumstances of her birth and abandonment.
"What made her do it? Why did she feel that she shouldn't leave me at a hospital? Was she going through a horrible time?"
Deprill learned about her abandonment as a 12-year-old, when her sixth-grade teacher assigned the class to a project focusing on the students' family backgrounds. Deprill came home and demanded answers from her adoptive parents, Brenda and Carl Hollis. They slid a scrapbook in front of her that held newspaper clippings from 1986.
The articles explained how a Burger King patron had heard a baby's cries and discovered Katheryn on the bathroom floor. How a restaurant worker then called police. How police were trying to track down the mother.
"I comprehended it, but it still didn't sink in that it was me, that a mother could just lay her baby down and walk away. That is just mind-blowing to me," Deprill said.
She launched her search with the blessing of her parents. In fact, it was her mother who suggested holding up a sign and posting it on social media.
Deprill said she is "definitely not looking to replace my brothers and sister nor my adoptive parents, because I've had the best life. It was the best childhood ever."
At the same time, "I would really like to see somebody who looks like me, and maybe I have (biological) brothers and sisters. … I'm really frustrated. I just wish I knew more about her."
Some people have told Deprill that her birth mother is unlikely to come forward for fear of being prosecuted. But Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said there's a two-year statute of limitations on child abandonment.
"Even if that were not the case," he said via email, "I believe most DAs would exercise sound discretion and not prosecute someone under these circumstances."
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In my latest column for RH Reality Check I talk about the recent news from the CDC that the teen pregnancy rate in the US continues its decline to historic lows across all racial and ethnic groups.
Changes in teen pregnancy rates are always greeted with much media attention, and the narrative tends to be consistent: teen pregnancy and parenting is bad and should be prevented.
I've written before about why this is the seductive narrative underneath teen pregnancy prevention: stop kids from having kids, and improve high school drop out rates, poverty, etc. But of course when you dig more you learn that it's not so clear that teen pregnancy is the cause of these outcomes. It may just be correlated because many teen parents were already at a higher risk for poverty, dropping out of high school, etc.
All of this to say that a drop in teen pregnancy does not necessary mean a drop in the negative outcomes generally associated with teen pregnancy. Some of those teens who would have been parents who are no longer becoming parents (likely because of better access to birth control) might still end up living in poverty, lack access to decent education, face health challenges.
We can't celebrate a drop in the teen pregnancy rate unless it's accompanied by statistics showing that young people are doing better overall–particularly those more likely to become teen parents. Perhaps we could celebrate if it came alongside news that low-income parents, parents of color, immigrant parents were all experiencing improved socioeconomic conditions, better education for their kids, easier routes toward income security.
Unfortunately the larger economic forecast doesn't demonstrate any of these things. Instead, we see the gap between rich and poor widening. We see greater difficulty with job security, increased homelessness, mounting health challenges.
People love to celebrate or fear monger about how many teens are parenting but it's just a distraction from the real questions for our society to grapple with: how to make sure all young people have access to the tools and services they need to guarantee a successful future.
And on that question I'm not celebrating yet.
Read the whole column here.


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Obama 1, Gun nuts and 'pond scum' 0
President Obama has been taking hits from all sides (so what else is new) for his failure to get Congress to vote for things he supports. One of the more stinging blows came from Maureen Dowd's column suggesting how he could have gotten the gun bill through: "Obama should have called Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota over to the Oval Office and put on the squeeze: "Heidi, you're brand new and you're going to have a long career. You work with us, we'll work with you. Public opinion is moving fast on this issue. The reason you get a six-year term is so you can have the guts to make tough votes. This is a totally defensible bill back home. It's about background checks, nothing to do with access to guns. Heidi, you're a mother. Think of those little kids dying in schoolrooms."
For that, Obama used his routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner to accuse unnamed commentators of being prone to "Aaron Sorkin liberal fantasies."
I'm sympathetic to both sides of this argument. Yes, I wish Obama were more feared by members of his own party in Congress, not to mention Republicans. I'm frustrated, just as he is.
But, really: A North Dakota senator has millions of reasons to oppose gun control measures that are geared toward saving lives in places far different than North Dakota (maybe not millions, since there may not be that many voters in North Dakota). It's her job to make those political calculations, not Obama's.
By the same token, it's the job of Republican senators in swing states to make their own political calculations. And at least three of them – Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Rob Portman of Ohio and Jeff Flake of Arizona – calculated wrong, and are paying for it. Thanks for his vote opposing background checks, Flake is now rated the most unpopular Senator, which he said makes him "lower than pond scum" in the eyes of his constituents.
Despite the gloating of Wayne Lapierre and Rob Meltzer, public opinion is swinging away from the gun zealots. Not everywhere, but in enough places that the gun vote is accelerating the Republicans' transformation into a regional party that will have great difficulty competing in national elections. They can try to blame Obama for that, too.


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Philadelphia abortion doctor guilty in 3 babies' deaths
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of a patient who had undergone an abortion. He was cleared in the death of a fourth baby, who prosecutors say let out a soft whimper before he snipped its neck.
Gosnell appeared hopeful before the verdict was read and calm afterward; jurors and lawyers on both sides were more emotional.
The jury will return May 21 to hear evidence on whether Gosnell should get the death penalty.
The grisly details came out more than two years ago during an investigation of prescription drug trafficking at Gosnell's clinic in an impoverished section of West Philadelphia.
Authorities said the clinic was a foul-smelling "house of horrors" with bags and bottles of stored fetuses, including jars of severed feet, along with bloodstained furniture, dirty medical instruments, and cats roaming the premises.
Pennsylvania authorities had failed to conduct routine inspections of all of its abortion clinics for 15 years by the time Gosnell's facility was raided and closed down. In the scandal's aftermath, two top state health department officials were fired, and Pennsylvania imposed tougher rules for clinics.
"We see this as triumph of justice," said Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, a group that has taken a lead role in efforts to enact anti-abortion laws in state legislatures.
Four former clinic employees have pleaded guilty to murder and four more to other charges. They include Gosnell's wife, Pearl, a cosmetologist who helped perform abortions.
Both sides of the abortion divide seized on the case. Abortion foes said it exposed the true nature of abortion in all its disturbing detail. Abortion rights activists warned that Gosnell's rogue practice foreshadows what poor and desperate young women could face if abortion is driven underground with more restrictive laws.
Midway through the six-week trial, anti-abortion activists accused the mainstream media of ignoring the case because it reflected badly on the abortion rights cause. Major news organizations denied the allegation, though a number promptly sent reporters to cover the trial.
After prosecutors rested their case, Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart threw out for lack of evidence three of seven murder counts involving aborted fetuses. That left the jury to weigh charges involving fetuses identified as Baby A, Baby C, Baby D and Baby E.
Prosecution experts said one was nearly 30 weeks along when it was aborted, and it was so big that Gosnell allegedly joked it could "walk to the bus." A second fetus was said to be alive for some 20 minutes before a clinic worker snipped its neck. A third was born in a toilet and was moving before another clinic employee grabbed it and severed its spinal cord, according to testimony.
Baby E let out a soft whimper before Gosnell cut its neck, prosecutors alleged. Gosnell was acquitted in that baby's death, the only one of the four in which no eyewitness account was given during the trial.
Gosnell's attorney, Jack McMahon, argued that none of the fetuses was born alive and that any movements were posthumous twitching or spasms.


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Bronson sweeps
Bronson swept Mendon in SVJ play Tuesday night.
The Lady Vikes won the first 10-0 and completed the sweep with 13-4 win.
Bronson was aided by 14 errors.
In the opener, Bronson broke the game open with five runs in the top of the second. They added three in the third, and one in the fifth and sixth innings.
Kassidy Bystry led the Lady Vikings with two singles and three RBI, Grace Pyles had three singles and one RBI and Kelsey Robinson drove in two runs with a hit.
Kelsey Scheenks drove in a run, Liz Baker was 4-for-4 all singles, Lauren Cary, Skyler Sobeski and Kelsey Robinson all had a base hit.
Sobeski picked up the win, allowing three hits, while striking out six.
Getting hits for the Lady Hornets were, Danielle Parsons, Alexis Russell and Randee Smith.
In the second game, Bronson built a 4-1 lead through three innings.
The Lady Vikes scored six runs in the fourth. They went on to score three more in the final two innings.
Mendon platted two in the fourth and one in sixth.
Lindsey Sikorski had a single, double and two RBI, Baker drove in a pair with a single. Bystry had three singles and one RBI and Sobeski had three singles and a double.
Also collecting a hit was Scheenks, Cary with two and Pyles.
Getting the win was Sikorski.
"I liked the way we came out and attacked the ball tonight," coach Becky Gray said. "We struggled a little defensively, but we made it up on the offensive side."
Leading the Lady Hornets was Jenna Griffith and Samantha McClimans with two hits each.
Shelby Harrison, Brooke Gabbard, Smith, Russell and Parsons all had a hit.
Centreville 17-16, White Pigeon 0-2
Centreville swept White Pigeon Tuesday night.
The Lady Bulldogs took the first 17-0 and won the second 16-2, both game lasting five innings.
In the opener Centreville pounded out 20 hits.
Charity Yeager led with four hits and five RBI, while Designated hitter Emily Anderson had three hits and four RBI.
Catherine Rigby drove in two runs with a hit. Katie Logan, Sarah Rice, Bailee May and Faith Morell all had one RBI.
Taking the win was Rigby, allowing one hit a single by Haley Miller. She had nine strikeouts.
Getting the loss was Monica Andaverde.
In the second game Centreville scored six runs in the first inning and went on for a 16-2 win.
Yeager again had the big bat, platting four runs on a hit.
May drove in three with two hits and Morell had two RBI with two hits.
Also driving in a run were, Logan, Rigby, Sam Lewis, Anderson and Becky Clementz.
Getting the win was Rice. She scattered three hits, while striking out three.
The Lady Chiefs Allie Lewis drove in both runs with a hit.
Sturgis 10-1, Lakeview 1-4
The Sturgis softball team split with SMAC rival Battle Creek Lakeview Tuesday night.
The Lady Trojans won the first game 10-1, but lost the second 4-1.
Dominique Beach led Sturgis on the mound and at the plate in the first game. Beach had two hits and three RBI.
Cassie Bart had a hit and two RBI, Courtney Lovelace had three hits and one RBI and Megan Courtney drove in a run.
Beach allowed four hits, while striking out 13.
In the second game Lakeview rallied scoring three runs in the bottom of the fifth to win 4-1.
Beach drove in the Lady Trojans only run.
Also getting hits were, Larissa Ludwick and Courtney both with three, Meg Warner and Lovelace each had one.
Colon 8-3, Tekonsha 1-1
Colon was led by Makayla Craun, who tossed a pair of one-hitters as the Lady Magi swept Tekonsha 8-1, 3-1, Tuesday night.
In the opener, Colon led 2-0 after their first at bat.
The Lady Magi added one in the fifth and blew the game open with five in the sixth.
Becca Keely had a triple and two RBI, Kirsten Kuhn had a single that scored two and Craun doubled in a run.
Kaitlyn Denny and Isabel Vigil both had two singles, Marissa Taylor and Caitlyn both had one single.
In getting the win, Craun struck out nine.
The second game was a pitchers duel, Craun allowed just one hit, while striking out 10, while Vigil had the only hit for Colon.
On Monday night, Colon split with Union City.
The Magi won the first game 4-0. They scored all four runs in the top of the fifth inning.
Craun picked up the win inside the circle with 13 strikeouts. She threw a no-hitter in the game, dominating the Lady Chargers.
Vigil had a 2-run single while Caitlyn Clipfell had an RBI base hit as well. Craun added an RBI triple and Abby Minor singled.
The second game saw Union City win 17-1.
Marissa Taylor took the loss.
Minor had two hits and an RBI while Craun added two base hits.
Taylor doubled while Taya Bower added a single.
Kalamazoo Christian 12-10, Constantine 0-0
Constantine only had two hits, through two game, in getting swept by Kalamazoo Christian 12-0, 10-0.
In the first game getting the lone Lady Falcon hit was Cassie Wentela.
Taking the loss was Dylan King.
In the second game Rachel Corpe had Constantines hit. Taking the loss was Kayla Byers.


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Iraq War anniversary: 10 years later, what have we learned?
Ten years ago, on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the assumptions many Americans held about the coming war, fed by rhetoric from the George W. Bush White House, turned out to be wildly inaccurate. Saddam Hussein, as we now know, did not possess weapons of mass destruction. The conflict would not end quickly. And the cost of the war — in lives and dollars — would far eclipse expectations. Today, a new set of beliefs defines many discussions about the war and its aftermath. Are they just as wrong?
1. The troop surge succeeded.
The surge of 26,000 troops into Baghdad in 2007 had two objectives: tamp down the bloody sectarian civil war and forge a political compromise among the three principal groups in Iraqi society — Shiite Arabs, Sunni Arabs and ethnic Kurds — that would set the country on a path to stability.
The surge helped accomplish the first goal, but it was not the only reason for the reduced violence. A decision by Sunni tribal leaders to oppose al-Qaida fighters in Iraq also played a major role. So, too, did Iraqi behavior; as mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad became more homogeneous and fortified, opportunities for sectarian violence decreased.
When it came to political compromise, however, the surge was a flop. Majority Shiites did not want to give the Sunnis and Kurds a greater role in the government and security forces, and the hopes of striking a grand bargain in the waning days of the Bush administration fizzled. As a consequence, red-hot embers remain in the tinderbox that is Iraq. Disputes over land and oil could spark another Kurd-Arab civil war in the north. Sunnis in the central part of the country, who have been holding anti-government protests for the past three months, now openly talk of rebellion. Sunni leaders accuse the Shiite-dominated security forces of persecuting them in the name of combating terrorism and purging old members of Hussein's Baath Party.
2. Iraq today is relatively peaceful.
Levels of violence are far lower than they were in 2006, at the height of the civil war, when hundreds of people were being killed every week. But Iraq is far from stable. On Monday, a suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a police station, killing five people; the same day, six more people were killed in various militant attacks in Baghdad. Three days earlier, 19 people died in a string of attacks targeting security personnel.
For the Iraqis who have no ticket out, life is still defined by bloodshed and fear. "The war is not over," a friend in Baghdad wrote to me recently. "There is still killing and bombing. We are still scared."
3. Iraq is a democracy.
It is — on paper. It has held successive national elections; it has a parliament and a modestly functional court system. In practice, however, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is exercising authority and centralizing power in ways that remind many Iraqis of Hussein. His security agencies have rounded up numerous Sunni leaders in recent months, accusing them of supporting the insurgency. Sunni officials contend that Maliki is using terrorism as a pretext to neutralize political foes.
Since he first won election in 2006, Maliki has moved to consolidate control over the country's security forces. He also has presided over the dismantling of the Sons of Iraq, the Sunni tribal militia that was instrumental in the fight against al-Qaida. The militia was supported by the U.S. military, which urged Maliki to integrate its members into the army and police force. Although he pledged to do so, only a fraction of Sunni militiamen have been given positions in the security services.
4. Iraq is in Iran's pocket.
Forget about all the blood and treasure the United States has poured into Iraq. Iran is Iraq's most strategically significant ally. Maliki owes his second term in large part to the pressure that Tehran exerted on rival Shiite political parties in Iraq, many of which received substantial financial support from the Iranian government. And there's plenty of evidence to indicate quid for the quo: Despite objections from Washington, Maliki's government has allowed Iranian cargo airplanes, allegedly filled with munitions, to fly to Syria through Iraqi airspace, enabling Tehran to prop up Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
But it would be wrong to assume that Maliki is permitting the flights only because of Iranian pressure. Even though Assad shares much of the Baathist ideology that Hussein espoused, he and his fellow Alawites are Shiites. It's more than kinship, however, that drives Maliki to favor the status quo in Syria. He and other leaders of Iraq's Shiite majority worry that if the Free Syrian Army overthrows Assad, the rebels will establish a radical Sunni government that will collaborate with Iraq's Sunni minority to topple the Baghdad government. "If the opposition is victorious, there will be a civil war in Lebanon, divisions in Jordan and a sectarian war in Iraq," Maliki warned in an interview with the Associated Press last month.
Nor do Tehran's money and love guarantee that Iraqi Shiites will do its bidding. Consider Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army militia was the bete noire of U.S. troops throughout much of the war. He spent years living in Iran, burnishing his religious credentials and rebuilding his political movement. Since his return to Iraq, though, he has sought to fashion himself as more of an Iraqi nationalist, reaching out to Sunni and Kurdish political factions that are Maliki rivals. When Sunnis convened large protests late last year to demand that Maliki amend terrorism and de-Baathification laws, Sadr bucked Tehran's dictates by meeting with Sunni leaders and espousing political compromise.
Iran is still bigger and more powerful. But Iraq's collaboration with Tehran is as often driven by its own interests as those of its neighbor.
5. The Americans have all left.
There are still about 220 U.S. military personnel in Iraq. They work for the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq, which handles the sale of military equipment to the Iraqi army and coordinates training. Those personnel work in an annex of the U.S. Embassy in central Baghdad, the largest American diplomatic mission in the world. The massive complex, built on the grounds of the former Green Zone in the capital, houses hundreds of State Department officers, U.S. development specialists and representatives from other federal agencies. Legions of private security contractors guard the compound.
Concerns that the fighting in Syria could spill over into Iraq recently prompted the CIA to increase its support to Iraqi counterterrorism forces, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Although the agency still intends to reduce its presence to about 300 personnel in Iraq, its station in Baghdad will remain one of the largest in the world.


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U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl said the claims must be barred because they came more than six years after each man reasonably should have realized that the physical and emotional injuries they're suing over were caused by alleged encounters with Clash. The judge also noted that each man had been over the age of 18 for more than three years before they filed their lawsuits.
One other lawsuit is pending in Pennsylvania.
Clash resigned from "Sesame Street" in November after college student Cecil Singleton sued him for more than $5 million, accusing Clash of having sex with him when he was 15.
At the time, Clash said he was leaving his job because "personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work 'Sesame Street' is doing."
Clash was the man behind Elmo, the popular furry red monster, for 28 years.
Singleton's lawsuit was among those thrown out Monday. Koeltl also rejected lawsuits brought by Kevin Kiadii, who claimed that Clash initiated contact with him on a gay chat line in 2004 when he was 16, and a third person, a Florida resident, who remained anonymous in his lawsuit as he claimed that Clash befriended him in late 1995 or early 1996 when he was 16 or 17.
The Associated Press generally doesn't identify people alleging sex crimes, but both Singleton and Kiadii have widely publicized their accusations, including giving several interviews and, in Singleton's case, a news conference.
Sex with a person under age 17 is a felony in New York if the perpetrator is 21 or older.
Koeltl said Singleton's claim expired in 2009, Kiadii's claim became time-barred at some point between 2008 and 2010 and the case brought anonymously would have expired between 2000 and 2002.
Adam D. Horowitz, an attorney for the men who brought the lawsuits, noted that the case was dismissed only on statute of limitations grounds.
"It should not be viewed as a vindication for Kevin Clash or a determination that he is innocent," Horowirz said. He added that lawyers were "still hearing from more of his alleged victims."
Jeff Herman, another lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement: "This is the first battle. We plan to appeal the decision and continue the fight to be a voice for victims."
Herman called the statute of limitations "an arbitrary timeline that silences victims" and demonstrates "the need for a window in New York to allow victims to have their day in court."
A lawyer for Clash did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the ruling, the judge said that the time in which someone must bring a lawsuit accumulates after the victimization rather than when the individual realizes subsequent psychological harm.
Otherwise, he said, plaintiffs could make claims decades later. He also said the plaintiffs cannot retroactively benefit from a change in law in March that extends the statute of limitations to 10 years.
"While the plaintiffs may not have recognized the extent of their injuries, they were aware of the defendant's conduct toward them and could have brought claims," Koeltl wrote.
The Manhattan judge noted that many courts have similarly refused to delay the counting of time toward the statute of limitations when someone claims they recently made the connection between abuse and the resulting injuries.


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A captivating portrait of "a hundred little anarchists in a London townhouse"
Mr Tibbits's Catholic School. By Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Introduction by A.N. Wilson. Afterword by Julian Fellowes. Illustrations by Kath Walker. Slightly Foxed, 199 pp., £15, paperback.
By Janice Harayda
A nun once stuffed young Bruce Springsteen into a garbage can because, a biographer reports, "that's where you belong." Such incidents abound in books about American Catholic education in the middle decades of the 20th century and tend to turn them into horror stories or bleak comedies of errors that wrest humor from pain.
Mr Tibbits's Catholic School is something rare: a book about a Catholic school that is at heart a love story. This captivating history of St Philip's in South Kensington has its share of anecdotes that might horrify anyone unfamiliar with how common such episodes once were at English boys' schools – pants-down beatings with a slipper, meals of Spam and watery mashed potatoes that all children had to eat, and cricket games played in frigid weather in just a shirt and itchy wool shorts, with underpants forbidden. The book also offers ample hilarity in its teachers' efforts to control what a former student called "a hundred little anarchists in a London townhouse."
But the eccentric founding headmaster and staff of St Philip's loved their charges in a way that, to judge by the sparkling anecdotes gathered by Ysenda Maxtone Graham, was largely reciprocated. Richard Tibbits and his "ragbag of untrained teachers" had a quality that rarely surfaces in books about American parochial schools: They were human. American Catholic students of his era were taught mainly by nuns whose flesh-and-blood realities remained a perpetual source of mystery. It was far from uncommon for young children to ask their parents, on first glimpsing their new teachers in black habits and stiff white wimples, "Do nuns go to the bathroom?"
No one would have been likely to ask that question about Tibbits, who resembled "a Beatrix Potter drawing of a very nice old pig" and was known for "extreme strictness" mixed with "the deepest kindness, compassion and care for the forming of boys' minds and souls." Nor would anyone have asked it about his wife, who chain-smoked Benson & Hedges as she presided over the ground-floor corridor in a nylon housecoat.
The Tibbitses attracted teachers with similar quirks. A retired Cockney customs officer, flush with his wife's money, taught math and boasted, "I could buy the whole lot of you out." A beautiful Polish princess arrived as a maternity-leave replacement for one of the few women on hand and fell in love with the geography instructor. John Tregear, the French teacher, "wore black boots with red cork high heels and drainpipe trousers." He leaps to immortality in one of the witty line drawings by Kath Walker that add as much charm to this book as Arthur Watts's do to E.M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady.
Richard Tibbits had founded St Philip's in 1934 as an academy for the 7-to-13-year-old sons of middle and upper class Catholics, many of whom attended Mass at the Brompton Oratory, and his teaching methods suited that group. As late as the mid-1960s, the school had no classes in biology or chemistry because, Tibbits said, "Gentlemen do not study science." When St Philip's finally dipped its toe into such fields, its approach might have struck some people as curious – students, for example, learned to make gunpowder. The school had crucifixes and pictures of the Pope on the walls, but it welcomed doubters with a warmth rare in American Catholic schools of its era, where many jokes involved variations on the words "Protestant" and "prostitute."
For all of this, St Philip's had high educational and spiritual standards that boys strived to uphold. One former student told Maxtone Graham that at the age of seven he was reading Treasure Island: "You were expected to be good at drawing, good at reading, interested in foreign lands." The high-achieving the families associated with the school suggest that students met those standards: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes attended St Philip's, the biographer Antonia Fraser sent her son, Orlando, there, and the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's mother taught singing. Maxtone Graham has rewarded the trust of those who spoke with her by writing a history distinguished by the perfection of its tone: She writes in the first person, so that her story reads like a memoir, but keeps her focus on St Philip's. In its casual tone, her book resembles many English schoolboy stories less than Diana Athill's recent memoirs, including Somewhere Towards the End. Mr Tibbit's Catholic School might have been called Somewhere Towards the End of the Reign of Richard Tibbits.
St Philip's began to change after Tibbits's died in 1967, and the process sped up in the 1980s as a new generation of working mothers dared to suggest improvements the old regime would not have tolerated, such as the purchase of a computer. But the fearless spirit of the school endures in its administrators' willingness to display on its website this melodious hymn to its idiosyncrasies, a book that shows how much American and other schools lose when they impose enough restrictions to drive away the most gifted and creative teachers. Ninety percent of the teachers at St Philip's were "certifiable," the historian and former student Adam Zamoyski admits. "They wouldn't be allowed within a mile of a school now. But that was often what made them such good teachers."
Best line: All. An example: "The teaching was old-fashioned, and sometimes downright out-of-date. Textbooks had not been renewed since the founding of the school: in geography lessons, 1960s boys found themselves learning about the exciting new invention of the mechanical combine harvester – which had actually come into widespread use in the 1930s."
Worst line: None. But a few more details on some would have been welcome. The book notes, for example, that Antonia Fraser was a school mother but not whether she sent all her sons there or just one.
Publication date: 2011
Learn more about the book on the publisher's website. Mr Tibbits's Catholic School is available from Crawford Doyle Booksellers in New York. Allison Pearson wrote about the book in the Telegraph.
About the author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham also wrote The Real Mrs. Miniver, a finalist for the Whitbread biography prize.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has been the book columnist for Glamour, the book critic for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle. You can follow Jan (@janiceharayda) on Twitter by clicking on the "Follow" button at right.
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Political power doesn't always make for the best food. In Asia, the top cities for deal making are still bested by those known by word of mouth for their rich traditions of wet markets and home cooking. Imperial Beijing has its duck — stolen from nearby Shandong province — and a wide array of regional showplaces, but foodies in China save their reverence for smaller towns in the rich Yangtze Delta like Yangzhou. In Vietnam, Hanoi, spartan in style and dominated by beef-noodle soup, has never been able to lord it over the south's imperial seat of Hue — still the best source of delicate rice-flour snacks. And Bangkok's fiery street fare pales before that of Khon Kaen, a main source of grilled-chicken-and-papaya salads perfected by the Isaan region.
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Today's News: Our Take - Is David E. Kelley's Monday Mornings a Carbon Copy of Grey's Anatomy?
There are hot doctors who may have unrequited feelings for one another. Colleagues call one of the docs 007. Another doc is definitely McDreamy - and has the hair to prove it.
No, we're not talking about Grey's Anatomy. We're describing TNT's new medical drama Monday Mornings, a near carbon-copy of ABC's Seattle-based series. In David E. Kelley's new take on the medical world, doctors - including those played by Jamie Bamber, Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames and Jennifer Finnigan - in a Portland-based hospital face life-and-death decisions every day as they fight against often-impossible odds to save their patients.
"A medical franchise will invite comparisons to other medical franchises," Kelley tells TVGuide.com. "I haven't seen a whole lot of Grey's lately, so it's not fair for me to compare. I compare more to Chicago Hope and ER - Chicago Hope I did, and ER I watched invariably."
The difference with this medical drama, Kelley says, is that the focus of each episode is on the weekly M&M meeting that takes place on - you guessed it - Monday mornings. The M&M (or Morbidity & Mortality) focuses on the doctor's actions that lead to deaths in the hospital so they can learn from their mistakes. "This is about the doctors holding each other accountable," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, whose book the series is based on, told reporters at the show's Winter TV preview panel Friday.
"I think it's the Monday morning chapter of our storytelling that's very, very different," Kelley says. "We're going behind the veil and really aggressively analyzing these doctors as doctors. That, I don't think, has been portrayed in medical shows in the way we're endeavoring to do it."
Despite comparisons, Kelley insists there's still plenty of ground to cover in the medical world. "First I had a reservation of the project itself because I've done a medical show before," Kelley says. "It sounded great, but the terrain sounded a little familiar with Chicago Hope. Then I read the book and saw that it was completely different... It felt like fertile storytelling ground."
"Are we reinventing the wheel? Probably not," he adds. "But is our wheel different from others that have been out there before? I think so."
Monday Mornings premieres Monday, Feb. 4 at 10/9c on TNT. Will you be watching?
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A small furry creature with dependable toilet habits is proving useful in attempts to chart the Earth's past climate change.
The Rock Hyrax is about the size of a guinea pig and lives in crevices in rock faces in Africa and Asia. Communities tend to stay in one place for a long time, and each generation teaches the next where to pee.
The result is layer upon layer of dried urine, which contains pollen, bits of leaves, grasses, and bubbles of air that can give a picture of the Earth's climate at a certain point in history. In one location in South Africa, a urine layer was found that stretches back 55,000 years.
A team from Montpelier University in France has been analysing this layer. "We are taking the piss, quite literally—and it is proving to be a highly effective way to study how climate changes have affected local environments," project leader Brian Chase told the Guardian.
Their results show that the region's climate was dramatically affected by the retreat of glaciers in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age. As the planet warmed, great lakes of meltwater formed behind ice barriers in parts of northern Europe. Eventually, these barriers broke, letting huge amounts of cold freshwater drain into the Northern Atlantic.
This dramatic freshwater infusion into the normally salty sea caused havoc with ocean currents, which are driven by temperature and salinity. The gulf stream, which normally brings warm water to northern Europe, was temporarily halted—plunging Northern Europe back into cold conditions once again.
What wasn't known previously was the effect that this had on the rest of the world. "This had a huge local impact in northern Europe but we did not know how the rest of the planet was affected," explained Chase. "Thanks to rock hyrax urine from the period, we have an answer. There was significant cooling in South Africa, and presumably the rest of the planet, at the time."
By studying how climate has changed in the past, it's hoped that some insight can be gleaned into how it may change as a result of human-induced global warming. A similar disruption of ocean currents is postulated by some as a consequence of current climate change.
"The aim of these studies—including our work on hyraxes—is to create a very accurate timeline of past climate events so we can understand what is causing them," said Chase. "Some researchers use ice cores. We just happen to use urine."


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